Posted on 05/02/2015 2:24:26 PM PDT by kristinn
The black man courting crowds of white conservatives doesn’t seem like the same guy that H. Westley Phillips once idolized. Phillips still relishes the day he heard Ben Carson inspire minority students at Yale University with his story of persistence. He can still feel the nervous anticipation he had while waiting in line to shake Carson’s hand.
After the speech, Phillips followed Carson’s path and...
“I had come from a public school in Tulsa and came from a single-parent household and thought I was the admissions mistake,” said Phillips, now 27. “But he gave me the comfort to know that if I did struggle — and I thought I would — that I wouldn’t have been the first, and there are ways to handle it. The message he gave was this backup artillery when times were hard.”
For many young African Americans who grew up seeing Carson as the embodiment of black achievement — a poor inner-city boy who became one of the world’s most accomplished neurosurgeons — his emergence as a conservative hero and unabashed critic of the United States’ first black president has been jarring.
Carson has been a black icon since 1987, when he became the first person to successfully separate twins conjoined at the backs of their heads. He was a rare and much-desired role model: a black man who became known for his intellect, not for telling jokes or shooting basketballs.
osters of Carson hung on bulletin boards in classrooms. Reading “Gifted Hands,” his 1992 autobiography, was practically a rite of passage.
But now retired from his medical career, Carson, 63, has become known more widely since using his speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast to offer a conservative critique of U.S. health-care and spending policies, while standing a few feet from President Obama.
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How dare Carson step off the plantation. HOW DARE HE??
Probably waking up from a bullsh!t induced seven years deep sleep.
Still, some would rather worship at the altar of “Barack”.
“He was a rare and much-desired role model: a black man who became known for his intellect, not for telling jokes or shooting basketballs.”
Reminds me of Biden’s description of Obama...
“I mean, you got the first mainstream
African-American who is articulate and
bright and clean and a nice-looking guy
...I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”-Biden
What a strange, partisan take on a black man not engaging in groupthink.
Using the National Prayer Breakfast to bash Christians is fine, but using it to criticize Obamacare is a sacrilege.
Amen
Politicians make poor heroes.
Man, Carson be trippin’ own muh n-word Obama! Dat mutha-mutha ain’t nuthin but a cracka-lovin oreo!
Those Greek columns and the fainting. How our Country has fallen since those days.
I like Ben Carson and he is on my short list.
The solution for progressive livestock is easy: call Carson “Uncle Tom” and be done with it. Whatever you do, don’t dare ponder the possibility that he might be right.
Huh.
I find his legacy enhanced.
Telling the truth will always win out in the end. May take a while, but truth wins.
Period.
Full stop.
End of story.
97% of 8lacks in this country are stuck on stupid.
You speak ill of the fraud, you’re banned.
Idiocracy is a documentary about America 500 yrs from now.
Idiocracy is a documentary about America six years ago.
Isn't that something like Kakistocrisy?
Ben Carson is following the same path as all other conservative blacks. He struts and postures for a brief spell, then someone yells, “Uncle Tom.” Career over.
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